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SHRM Provides Businesses H1N1 Toolkit, Podcast, and Advice

SHRM Provides Businesses H1N1 Toolkit, Podcast, and AdviceAlexandria, Va., – In response to the H1N1 flu pandemic, the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)partnered with the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, The Clorox Company, and the Community Health Charities to create tools HR professionals could use to combat H1N1 in the workplace.The comprehensive H1N1 resources include three toolkits and a podcast:“Doing Business During an Influenza Pandemic: Human Resource Policies, Protocols, Templates, Tools, & Tips,” created by the University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) and SHRM, with support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Designed to help organizations of all sizes, the toolkit provides businesses a blueprint to improve their current disaster preparedness/ pandemic plans, and federal guidance H1N1.

The recently released SHRM poll, “The H1N1 Virus – How Prepared is Your Workplace?,” provides a pulse check of how organizations currently are responding to the H1N1 flu, what policies they have instituted, what they do should an employee get sick, and other important employer responses to H1N1.

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About the Society for Human Resource Management

The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) is the world’s largest association devoted to human resource management. Representing more than 250,000 members in over 140 countries, the Society serves the needs of HR professionals and advances the interests of the HR profession. Founded in 1948, SHRM has more than 575 affiliated chapters within the United States and subsidiary offices in China and India. Visit SHRM Online at www.shrm.org.